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The Burley Municipal Airport was dedicated on July 4th, 1930. [3] A stop on the Contract Air Mail Route 5 (CAM5) from Salt Lake City to Pasco, the airport began its life servicing Air Mail aircraft. [4] [5] The first airline flights were Empire Airlines Boeing 247s in 1946; successors West Coast Airlines and Air West landed at Burley until 1969.
This is a list of airports in Idaho (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Burley (/ ˈ b ʊ r l iː /) is a city in Cassia and Minidoka counties in southern Idaho, United States. The population was 11,704 at the 2020 census, [4] up from 10,345 in 2010. The city is the county seat of Cassia County. [5] Burley is the principal city of the Burley, Idaho, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which
West Coast Airlines and its successors Air West, Hughes Airwest and Republic Airlines (1979–1986) served the airport for many years. In 1954, West Coast was serving Twin Falls with nonstop Douglas DC-3 flights to Boise and Burley/Rupert in Idaho with direct service to Pocatello and Idaho Falls as well as connecting flights to Portland, OR (PDX) and Boeing Field (BFI) in Seattle WA. [4]
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[48] [51] [52] The plane, with two pilots and a flight attendant on board, landed safely at Denver's Stapleton airport at 2:55 p.m. MST. [46] Facing potential death penalty charges for air piracy , [ 53 ] the Vietnam veteran and former U.S. Army paratrooper [ 54 ] was sentenced to forty years, but served less than eight, and was released from a ...
SH-81 was established by the Idaho State Board of Highway Directors on September 12, 1972, to preserve state maintenance of the highway between Burley and the Utah state line. [2] [7] In 1983, the Idaho Transportation Board studied an extension of SH-81 from Burley to Twin Falls to replace an existing section of US 30. [8]
Friedman Memorial Airport, the gateway to Sun Valley, is built on land donated to the city of Hailey by Leon and Lucile Friedman in 1931 and named in memory of their father, Simon M. Friedman. Simon was a local merchant and rancher who arrived in Hailey in the 1880s and served as mayor from 1909 to 1913.